The Honors and Awards 
Solomon H. Snyder
BORN:
Washington, D.C.
December 26, 1938
EDUCATION:
Georgetown College, Washington, D.C. (1955–1958)
Georgetown Medical School, Washington, D.C. M.D. Cum Laude
(1962)
APPOINTMENTS:
Research Associate, NIH, (1963–1965)
Resident, Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins (1965–1968)
Assistant (1966–1968), Associate (1968–1970), Full (1970– )
Professor, Johns Hopkins, Pharmacology and Psychiatry
Distinguished Service Professor of Neuroscience Pharmacology and Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins (1980– )
Director, Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins
(1980–2006)
HONORS AND AWARDS (SELECTED):
Honorary Doctorates:
Northwestern University (1981)
Georgetown University (1986)
Ben Gurion University, Israel (1990)
Albany Medical College (1998)
Technion University, Israel (2002)
Mount Sinai Medical School (2004)
University of Maryland (2006)
Awards:
Albert Lasker Award (1978)
Wolf Prize (1983)
Bower Award (1992)
National Medal of Science (2005)
Albany Prize in Medicine (2007)
Honorific Societies:
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1979)
National Academy of Sciences USA (1980)
Institute of Medicine (1988)
American Philosophical Society (1992)
Solomon Snyder identified receptors for opiates and neurotransmitters and elucidated mechanisms of drug action. He characterized messenger systems including IP3 receptors and inositol pyrophosphates. He identified novel neurotransmitters including nitric oxide, carbon monoxide and D-serine.
Solomon H. Snyder
L
ike most other people, I am the product of my parents. Hence, a brief review of their lives may provide insight into my own. Similarly, the lives of my siblings may be informative. My dad was born in 1911 in
Baltimore, the fifth of seven children. His father moved to Washington when he was 2 years old to open a small grocery store a block away from the butcher shop operated by Al Jolson’s father. Like his father and most of his siblings, Dad was musical and for many years
BORN:
Washington, D.C.
December 26, 1938
EDUCATION:
Georgetown College, Washington, D.C. (1955–1958)
Georgetown Medical School, Washington, D.C. M.D. Cum Laude
(1962)
APPOINTMENTS:
Research Associate, NIH, (1963–1965)
Resident, Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins (1965–1968)
Assistant (1966–1968), Associate (1968–1970), Full (1970– )
Professor, Johns Hopkins, Pharmacology and Psychiatry
Distinguished Service Professor of Neuroscience Pharmacology and Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins (1980– )
Director, Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins
(1980–2006)
HONORS AND AWARDS (SELECTED):
Honorary Doctorates:
Northwestern University (1981)
Georgetown University (1986)
Ben Gurion University, Israel (1990)
Albany Medical College (1998)
Technion University, Israel (2002)
Mount Sinai Medical School (2004)
University of Maryland (2006)
Awards:
Albert Lasker Award (1978)
Wolf Prize (1983)
Bower Award (1992)
National Medal of Science (2005)
Albany Prize in Medicine (2007)
Honorific Societies:
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1979)
National Academy of Sciences USA (1980)
Institute of Medicine (1988)
American Philosophical Society (1992)
Solomon Snyder identified receptors for opiates and neurotransmitters and elucidated mechanisms of drug action. He characterized messenger systems including IP3 receptors and inositol pyrophosphates. He identified novel neurotransmitters including nitric oxide, carbon monoxide and D-serine.
Solomon H. Snyder
L
ike most other people, I am the product of my parents. Hence, a brief review of their lives may provide insight into my own. Similarly, the lives of my siblings may be informative. My dad was born in 1911 in
Baltimore, the fifth of seven children. His father moved to Washington when he was 2 years old to open a small grocery store a block away from the butcher shop operated by Al Jolson’s father. Like his father and most of his siblings, Dad was musical and for many years